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Author : Richard H. Steckel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521801676
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Backbone of History written by Richard H. Steckel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-26 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Ph.D. Julia Dye
Publisher : Warriors Publishing Group via PublishDrive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book Backbone written by Ph.D. Julia Dye and published by Warriors Publishing Group via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noncommissioned officers stand as the backbone of the United States Marine Corps. The Corps is among the most lasting institutions in America, though few understand what makes it so strong and how that understanding can be applied effectively in today’s world. In this insightful and thoroughly researched book, Julia Dye explores the cadre of noncommissioned officers that make up the Marine Corps’ system of small-unit leadership. To help us better understand what makes these extraordinary men and women such effective leaders, Dye examines the fourteen leadership traits embraced by every NCO. These qualities— including judgment, enthusiasm, determination, bearing, and unselfishness—are exemplified by men like Terry Anderson, the former Marine sergeant who spent nearly seven years as a hostage in Beirut, John Basilone, the hero of the Pacific, and many others. To assemble this extraordinary chronicle, Julia Dye interviewed Anderson and dozens of other Marines, mining a rich trove of historical and modern NCO heroes that comprise the Marine Corps’ astonishing legacy, from its founding in 1775 to the present day.
Author : Richard H. Steckel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421954
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Backbone of Europe written by Richard H. Steckel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the largest recorded dataset based on human skeletal remains from archaeological sites across the continent of Europe.
Author : Ryan Hall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469655160
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beneath the Backbone of the World written by Ryan Hall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they dominated the northern imperial borderlands of North America. The Blackfoot maintained their control even as their homeland became the site of intense competition between white fur traders, frequent warfare between Indigenous nations, and profound ecological transformation. In an era of violent and wrenching change, Blackfoot people relied on their mastery of their homelands' unique geography to maintain their way of life. With extensive archival research from both the United States and Canada, Ryan Hall shows for the first time how the Blackfoot used their borderlands position to create one of North America's most vibrant and lasting Indigenous homelands. This book sheds light on a phase of Native and settler relations that is often elided in conventional interpretations of Western history, and demonstrates how the Blackfoot exercised significant power, resiliency, and persistence in the face of colonial change.
Author : Richard Hall Steckel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Backbone of History written by Richard Hall Steckel and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford, Frank
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767907027
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Backbone of the World written by Clifford, Frank and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of the World, an arresting exploration of America’s longest wilderness corridor, a harsh and unforgiving region inhabited by men and women whose way of life is as imperiled as the neighboring wildlife. With the brutal beauty and stark cadences of a Cormac McCarthy novel, The Backbone of the World tells the story of the last remnants of the Old West, America’s mythic landscape, where past and present are barely discernible from one another and where people’s lives are still intrinsically linked to their natural surroundings. Clifford vividly captures the challenges of life along the Divide today through portraits of memorable characters: a ranching family whose isolated New Mexico homestead has become a mecca for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers; a sheep herder struggling to make a living tending his flock in the mountains above Vail, Colorado: an old mule packer who has spent years scouring the mountains of northwest Wyoming for the downed plane of his son; a Yellowstone Park ranger on a lone crusade to protect elk and grizzly bears from illegal hunters; and a group of Blackfeet Indians in northern Montana who are fearful that a wilderness sanctuary will be lost to oil and gas development. In each of their stories, the tide of change is looming as environmental, economic, social, and political forces threaten this uniquely unfettered population. Clifford’s participatory approach offers a haunting and immediate evocation of character and geography and an unsentimental eulogy to the people whose disappearance will sever a link with the defining American pioneer spirit. Set in a world of isolated ranches, trail camps, mountain bivouacs, and forgotten hamlets, The Backbone of the World highlights the frontier values that have both ennobled and degraded us, values that symbolize the last breath of our founding character.
Author : Jonathan Daniels
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1455603511
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book DEVIL'S BACKBONE, THE written by Jonathan Daniels and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985-12-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a history as dark and bloody as any in our nation, the Natchez Trace has always been more than just a thoroughfare. Growing out of a need for a return route for flatboats that floated down the Mississippi, the Trace winds up from Natchez, Mississippi, through Alabama and ends in Nashville, Tennessee. From the start, the Natchez Trace was alive with rugged pioneers, politicians, ladies of fashion, settlers, soldiers, and robbers. You'll learn about the trail and the notable figures who traversed it, such as Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Daniel Boone, and Meriwether Lewis, whose death on the Trace is still a mystery. Leading all the way to Texas, the Natchez Trace was the road for troops going to the Battle of New Orleans, the path walked by the men who were to die at the Alamo, and an escape route for slaves. The Devil's Backbone is chock full of the ever-changing parade of travelers along the Natchez Trace. The author tells the story of the people who built America, crossing a wilderness to create a nation.
Author : Christopher Webber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781605981758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book American to the Backbone written by Christopher Webber and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of a forgotten hero of nineteenth century New York City--a former slave, Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement.
Author : H. Gee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0585252726
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Before the Backbone written by H. Gee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries. We would have many a question to ask them if we could - questions never to be solved. Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone When I started this book in 1991, the subject of vertebrate origins was fusty and unfashionable. Early drafts for this preface read like an extend ed complaint at the lot of traditional morphologists, cast aside by the march of modern molecular biology. But no longer - this book should reach you at a time of renewed inter est in the origin of the vertebrates, our own particular corner of creation. For although the topic has excited interest for well over a century, molec ular biology has only lately achieved the maturity necessary to test its predictions. As a legitimate field of study, it is fashionable again.
Author : Terry C. Johnston
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466849827
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Devil's Backbone written by Terry C. Johnston and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devil's Backbone Terry C. Johnston The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe. Besieged in the natural stronghold of the Lava Beds near Tule Lake, the Modocs waged bloody war for seven long months. Sergeant Seamus Donegan, on the trail of his uncle, Ian O'Rourke, arrived at Tule Lake just as the conflict erupted. Soon Donegan and the brooding O'Rourke found themselves embroiled in what would be the costliest war in frontier history...
